The Routledge Handbook of Properties

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising. In philosophy, it is one of the oldest topics discussed in various intellectual traditions - East and West - reaching back to Plato and Aristotle. Today, in the analytic tradition, properties continue to be a core area of study and research. The Routledge Handbook of Properties is an outstanding reference source to this perennial topic and is the first major volume of its kind. It contains forty specially commissioned chapters written by an international team of expert contributors, and is divided into nine clear parts: - Methodology and Metaontology - Distinctions - Realism about Universals - Nominalism - Trope Theory - Properties in Causation, Time, and Modality - Properties in Science - Properties in Language and Mind - Properties in the Normative Realm, the Social World, and Aesthetics The Routledge Handbook of Properties is essential reading for anyone studying and researching metaphysics, metametaphysics, and ontology, and will also be of interest to those in closely related areas such as philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics.

A.R.J. Fisher is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University, USA. His research focuses on the metaphysics of properties, time, and modality. He also works on the history of twentieth-century metaphysics, writing on metaphysical topics from a historical perspective. He edited Donald C. Williams's The Elements and Patterns of Being (2018), and is presently writing a monograph on Williams's metaphysics (forthcoming). Anna-Sofia Maurin is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on issues in (meta)metaphysics, especially tropes, unity in complexity, ontological justification, infinite regress arguments, grounding, and metaphysical explanation. Her most recent research also covers debates in social ontology. She is the author of If Tropes (2002), and Properties in the Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics series (2022).

Introduction: the importance of properties A.R.J. Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maurin Part 1: Methodology and metaontology 1. Quantification and ontological commitment Nicholas K. Jones 2. The method of paraphrase John A. Keller 3. Properties as truthmakers Bradley Rettler 4. Naturalness: abundant and sparse properties Elanor Taylor Part 2: Distinctions 5. Universality and particularity Daniel Giberman 6. Are properties abstract entities? Sam Cowling 7. Relations: existence and Nature Fraser MacBride 8. Intrinsic/extrinsic Vera Hoffmann-Kolss 9. Essential versus accidental properties Fabrice Correia 10. Determinate/determinable Eric Funkhouser Part 3: Realism about universals 11. Platonic realism Chad Carmichael 12. Immanent realism and states of affairs Bo R. Meinertsen 13. Location and properties Nikk Effingham 14. Universals and the bundle theory Jiri Benovsky Part 4: Nominalism 15. Ostrich nominalism Michael Devitt 16. Class nominalism and resemblance nominalism Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 17. Priority and grounding nominalism Guido Imaguire 18. Nominalism in mathematics Jody Azzouni Part 5: Trope theory 19. Trope nominalisms Douglas Ehring 20. Types of tropes: modifier and module Robert K. Garcia 21. Trope bundle theories of substance Markku Keinänen and Jani Hakkarainen 22. Trope-relations Anna-Sofia Maurin Part 6: Properties in causation, time, and modality 23. Causation and properties Carolina Sartorio 24. Dispositional properties Jennifer McKitrick 25. Events, processes, and properties Carlo Rossi 26. Temporal properties Katarina Perovic 27. Possible worlds as properties Peter Forrest 28. Powers, potentialities and modality Barbara Vetter Part 7: Properties in science 29. Properties and natural kinds Alexander Bird 30. Laws of nature Tuomas E. Tahko 31. Emergent properties Anne Sophie Meincke 32. Quantitative properties J.E. Wolff Part 8: Properties in language and mind 33. Reference to properties in natural language Friederike Moltmann 34. Mental causation and higher-order properties David Robb 35. Qualia as properties of experiences Umut Baysan 36. Properties in perception Bence Nanay Part 9: Properties in the normative realm, the social world, and aesthetics 37. Normative properties Matti Eklund 38. Moral properties Caj Strandberg 39. Social properties Dee Payton 40. Aesthetic properties Sonia Sedivy. Index